Cars blocking driveway
What is it about people parking in my driveway and blocking my garage?
I’ve never encountered this problem before in any community that I’ve lived in. Over the last year and a half I have had at least a dozen … maybe more … vehicles parked right in front of my driveway, blocking my access to my garage.
There is a sign saying “no parking” but evidently that means nothing to these people.
The last person said I was rude because I asked him if he was blind and if the sign was too small for him too see!
The police told me they have been here many times in the past. Why?
Are people really this ignorant? Or can they afford to have their cars towed and it’s no big deal?
I understand that in a beach town parking is at a premium, but if you don’t pay attention to posted signs and you don’t know what a driveway or a garage door looks like, well … be prepared to pay the price.
Dennis Loebs
Seal Beach
Trap the coyotes
There is a serious coyote problem in Seal Beach. Countless domestic animals have disappeared.
Walking through town, you will see signs for missing cats.
On my street alone, I know of six cats in the past year who are now gone because of the coyotes.
Within the last two weeks, coyotes were out during the day tracking a dog walker from the Seal Beach Animal Care Center; it took two adults to haze the coyotes off the dogs.
Due to that incident, volunteer dog walkers must now carry air horns and they are no longer using extension leashes.
The city claims that their public outreach for coyote awareness has been significant; unfortunately, “outreach” isn’t getting rid of the problem.
Making people aware of the coyotes isn’t solving anything. People are already aware.
Some people have outdoor cats and sometimes animals escape outside.
How many more beloved family pets have to die?
How much longer before a person is attacked?
Does Seal Beach want to be on the news for a child getting mauled by a coyote?
The city needs to physically do something, not just talk about it.
The coyotes need to be physically removed from the area.
This has been going on for well over a year now and I have no doubt the coyote problem has only worsened. The city needs to trap the coyotes and relocate them.
Please join my Facebook group called “Coyotes Are Problem for Seal Beach” and let’s work to actually do something about this problem. https://www.facebook.com/groups/267687180101243/
Nate Kranda
Seal Beach
Pier reopening
In the July 24, 2014 issue of the Sun Newspapers, Mayor Ellery Deaton is quoted as saying that “The pier is now open to walk all round the perimeter again.” And “ … the public now has access to the whole pier. Good news for us all!”
I wholeheartedly agree, because I walk out on the pier daily and I have missed rounding the tip of the pier for about a year and a half due to its closure. But four times in this first week of its reopening on my early morning walks, anglers have blocked access to the north side at the end.
Because of the fencing around the building that used to house Ruby’s, the walkway is very narrow, making it impossible to access when fisherman have parked chairs, fishing equipment, and themselves there. Yesterday morning as I tried unsuccessfully to get around the end of pier, I asked the two fishermen to please keep the area clear and was told bluntly, no.
I am suggesting that the city post signs in the area instructing people to not block the walkways.
This would hopefully help alleviate the problem.
If a couple of signs were posted, then we could actually walk the entire perimeter of the pier so that the pier would be truly accessible to all of the public, not just a few fishermen who get there first and then squat for hours.
Terry Brennan
Seal Beach
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